Mar201131

What we know about Windows 8 is incomplete and unofficial – garnered from job postings, rumours and the slides allegedly leaked in June 2010 by a software engineer at HP responsible for OEM relations.

The slides include plenty of marketing ideas rather than technical details, they show that Microsoft has its eye on what Apple is doing to make its operating systems so popular and they declare themselves a work in progress.

Not only is every page marked ‘this is not a plan of record’ but the opening discussion includes the line “reality: there are currently more ideas than there is time to implement them”. That’s especially true if the Windows 8 release date is as soon as we think it might be.